Nashvillians will participate in the upcoming National Women’s Strike, which is an event hosted by the Women’s March.
On Monday, June 24, the day that Roe v. Wade was overturned, turning abortion laws back over to the states, women will take the day off and strike at the Tennessee State Capitol, along with counterparts in around 100 other cities.
“No spending, No work, No school,” Women’s March website says. “On the 2nd anniversary of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, girls, women, and allies go on strike. Participants do not go to work, do not go to school, and/or do not spend even 1 penny. As our privacy, body autonomy, healthcare, and travel rights are being removed, we remove ourselves for 1 day en masse. We stand together for all Americans to show that the nation needs us.”
The group boasts that 1,770 attendees have already confirmed its attendance nationwide.
The Women’s March began as a large protest against former president Donald Trump in Washington on January 21, 2017, the day after Trump’s inauguration, and parlayed itself into a nonprofit organization.
In 2018, the group had a hand in the #CancelKavanaugh movement, wherein Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was accused without evidence of sexual assault, leading to national protests.
“The Women’s March still brags about its part in that charade on its website.
“Women’s March, along with Center for Popular Democracy, organized four weeks of sustained activism to stop the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” the group says. “Thousands traveled to D.C. from states including Maine, Nebraska, Iowa, Alaska, South Carolina where nearly 500 people were arrested for occupying Senate offices and disrupting the confirmation process.”
The group’s momentum was slowed in 2019 when Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, and Linda Sarsour, three of the group’s original founders, resigned from the board in disgrace due to antisemitism.
The group was also closely associated with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Photo “Bigger than Roe” by Women’s March.
